> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 28 April 2002 12:29 am, John Summerfield wrote: > > I've created updated ISOs with updates to April 24. As others have > > noted, they're too big for 650 Mbyte CDs (I have the errors to had). > > > > I tried a CD install and found that I have to do the CD shuffle. I read > > back the through my archive and found something to change... > > Hi John, > I'm not sure about the http error, though I'd guess it's related to the > error causing the cd shuffle. The web log shows it got netstg1 correctly, but after that it forgot to look in the disc1 subdirectory. btw ftp didn't do as well;-( > > I've written some scripts I use to generate an updated disks.. You're > welcome to have a look at them and see if they help. I used Jean-Yves's splitdistro that fixed up some other problems I mentioned here and made a three-disk set, about 60 Mbytes on the third. In installing from the set I also verified that I'd fixed the shuffle problem,. > > I've used the disks created with the scripts to do a couple of installs > so far without issue. No errors, warnings, or cd shuffle required. > > The README and comments in variables.sh should be enough to explain how > to use them. Briefly, I use a directory containing all the updates. > variables.sh defines all the variables used by the other scripts. > check_dups.sh verifies that there are no duplicate updates. > Then I mount the stock Red Hat cd1, and run update_cd1.sh. > Mount cd2 and run update_cd2.sh > This creates my updated build tree. I have the entire tree (including documentation packages) on disk to install from: summer@numbat summer]$ ll ~ftp/pub/linux/RedHat/7.2/* -d drwxr-sr-t 2 root 4096 Mar 4 07:16 /var/ftp/pub/linux/RedHat/7.2/Extr as drwxr-sr-t 2 root 4096 Jan 11 09:20 /var/ftp/pub/linux/RedHat/7.2/ISO drwxr-sr-x 2 root 4096 Apr 28 12:33 /var/ftp/pub/linux/RedHat/7.2/disc 1 drwxr-sr-x 2 root 4096 Apr 28 12:33 /var/ftp/pub/linux/RedHat/7.2/disc 2 drwxr-sr-t 7 root 4096 Apr 26 09:19 /var/ftp/pub/linux/RedHat/7.2/dist -rw-r--r-- 1 root 2125 Apr 26 09:18 /var/ftp/pub/linux/RedHat/7.2/docu mentation.packages drwxr-sr-t 3 root 4096 Mar 12 15:16 /var/ftp/pub/linux/RedHat/7.2/ks drwxr-sr-t 4 root 4096 Jan 29 12:18 /var/ftp/pub/linux/RedHat/7.2/sour ce drwxr-sr-t 10 root 4096 Mar 24 11:02 /var/ftp/pub/linux/RedHat/7.2/upda tes [summer@numbat summer]$ I export /var/pub/linux via NFS so I can install (in theory) pretty much anything via NFS or FTP. I wrote a little perl that uses RPM::Header to determine which are the latest and to generate a series of cp commands to choose the latest of everything. > voodoo_magic.sh handles all the anaconda-runtime work, and has to be run > as root. It creates all the installer files and splits the build tree. > You do need to edit /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/splitdistro and change: > targetSize = 650 * 1024 * 1024 > to: > targetSize = 700 * 1024 * 1024 > Of course, you'll need 700M media. That was one of my problems. I could see me going through boxes of 700 Mbyte media getting the disk shuffle fixed. OTOH two 700 Mbyte rewritables (I could only find one) would have done nicely. > > makeimages.sh generates the iso images. > All that is left is to burn the images to CD. > > If you think they'll be helpful, they are here: They may be educational; I have them, thanks. > http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/hacks/build_distro/build_distro.tgz Here's my script to choose the latest; you may prefer it to check_dups.sh: !/usr/bin/perl -w use RPM::Header; $CP="/bin/cp -fp"; $BaseDir="/mnt/nfs"; $WorkDir="/tmp/RHL-cd"; mkdir $WorkDir . "/RedHat/RPMS/" || warn $!; mkdir $WorkDir . "/SRPMS" || warn $!; $SourcePackageDir=$BaseDir . "/dist/SRPMS"; $UpdatedSourcePackageDir=$BaseDir . "/updates/SRPMS"; @Originals=`find $BaseDir/dist -name \*.rpm | grep -v SRPMS | sort`; chomp @Originals; @Updates=`find $BaseDir/updates -name \*.rpm | grep -v SRPMS | sort`; chomp @Updates; $Originals=@Originals; $Updates=@Updates; @SourcePackages=(); for $pack (@Originals, @Updates) { $headers = new RPM::Header $pack || warn "Error getting details of " . $pack; ($N,$V,$R) = $headers -> NVR; $A = $headers -> {arch} || warn "Cannot get arch for $N"; $Spack=$headers -> {sourcerpm}; $Package{$N . '-' . $A} = $N . "\t" . $V . "\t" . $R. "\t" . $A . "\t" . $pack . "\t" . $Spack; } @SortedPackages= sort { $a cmp $b } values %Package; $N=0; for $P (@SortedPackages) { ($N, $V, $R, $A, $pack, $Spack) = split /\t/,$P; print "$CP $pack $WorkDir/RedHat/RPMS/\n"; push @SourcePackages, $Spack; } $Old=""; foreach $P (sort @SourcePackages) { $Pfile= $SourcePackageDir . "/" . $P; $Pfile= $UpdatedSourcePackageDir . "/" . $P unless -e $Pfile; print "$CP $Pfile $WorkDir/SRPMS\n" unless $Old eq $Pfile; $Old = $Pfile; } [summer@numbat summer]$ -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition. ============================== If you don't like being told you're wrong, be right!
